Getting Started with Pyxel

Let's sharpen our tools for developing Pyxel games, and more!

Sébastien Boisgérault
Associate Professor, ITN Mines Paris – PSL

Quickstart

Go to https://www.pyxelstudio.net and create a new project. That’s it, you’re done!

The Hard Way

Useful if you want:

to develop Python projects other than Pyxel games,
to work locally on your computer and not depend on “the cloud”,
to benefit from a more feature-rich development environment.

Visual Studio Code

Install Visual Studio Code, then
Install the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

Pixi

The Pixi package manager can handle all your project software dependencies. It is a good choice for Python projects in general, and especially for hybrid projects that require both Python packages and non-Python software, since it can install both Python packages from PyPi and Python and non-Python software from conda-forge.

Pixi worflow

Install pixi, then for each new project, create a new empty pixi environment

pixi my_new_project

Then get into the newly created directory my_new_project

cd my_new_project

and install what you need from conda-forge, for example

pixi install python

then if you also need packages from PyPi, like pyxel, install them with

pixi install --pypi pyxel

Develop your project with your favorite editor, for example Visual Studio Code, and when you need to run your code, just type

pixi run python my_app.py

An good alternative to Pixi for pure Python projects is uv.